Claire Le Feuvre is Professor of Greek and Indo-European Linguistics at the Sorbonne University of Paris. As an Indo-Europeanist, she specialised in Slavic linguistics (Ph.D. on Old Novgorodian, 1998) and Ancient Greek (Habilitation on Homer, 2009). She previously published a book on the reanalysis and reinterpretation of Homeric words in Greek (Ὅμηρος δύσγνωστος. Réinterprétations de termes homériques à date archaïque et classique. Geneva, Droz. 2015) as well as several articles in English and in French.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Homeric Scholarship and Zenodotus’ Status2 Corpus1 Zenodotus’ Text: An Overview1 Types of Variant Readings2 Linguistic Evidence for Zenodotus’ Text3 Criteria of Discussion of Variant Readings4 Old Forms in new clothes5 Should a Zenodotean Older Reading Be Printed in a Modern Edition?6 Zenodotus and Historical Linguistics2 Sitting on an Old Tree1 Γ 151–152: The Metrical Problem2 Zenodotus’ Reading3 Dialectal Trees4 The Athematic Forms of δένδρεον5 “Tree” and Its Proto-Indo-European Root6 Back to Zenodotus7 Δενδρήεις3 “Demain dès l’aube” (Tomorrow at Dawn)1 Θ 470: The Metrical Problem2 Θ 470: The Syntactic Problem3 Zenodotus’ Reading4 Aeolic αὔα/αὖα5 Proto-Indo-European Inflection of “Dawn”6 Boeotian ἀϝές, Zenodotus’ ἄϝας and Sappho’s *αὔα7 Ἄας δὴ and ἠοῦς δὴ8 Θ 5259 Chronology and Phonetic Evolution10 Achaean Type τελήεις4 Stretching Arms1 Α 3512 A Linguistic Fossil3 Yet Another Fossil5 Matters of Perception1 Ξ 37–38: The Hapax ὀψείοντες2 Zenodotus’ Reading3 Adverbs and Preverbs4 μ 438–4395 Elimination of ὄψ6 From Zenodotus’ Reading to the Vulgate6 Cloaks and Coats1 Ἔρυμα/ἔλυμα Δ 1372 Νυκτὶ ἐλυσθείς Α 473 ϝελυσθείς and ἐλυσθείς4 ἐλύσθη5 A New Picture6 Hesiod’s ἔλῡμα7 Straight Shaft and Straight Flight1 The hapax ἰθυπτῑ́ων2 Κυλλοποδίων3 Zenodotus’ Reading4 Reconstruction and Etymology5 The Vulgate’s Reading8 Hollow Lacedaemon, Its Reeds, Its Crevices …1 Achaean κηώεις?2 Κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν # Β 5813 What Was Zenodotus’ Spelling?4 Καιτάεσσαν in Its Context5 Reanalysis and Secondary Use6 Remotivating the New Form9 Reeds Again1 Σ 576: The Vulgate’s Reading2 Zenodotus’ Reading3 The Preposition and the Status of κελάδων10 Homer the Master of Rhetorics1 Β 6812 Α 603 Ζ 70–714 Λ 4585 Γ 210–2116 O 190–191SynthesisConclusionAppendix: The CorpusBibliographyIndex VerborumIndex LocorumIndex Grammaticorum